Interesting challenge!

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    1. macro1970
      Aug 27, 2008
      macro1970 says:

      Hi there,

      I thought I'd give this a go... seems an intriguing way to learn MQL/MJT. It does turn out to be surprisingly difficult!

      One thing that's implicit in the wikipedia article is every spin-off only has one 'parent' show, which isn't necessarily true in freebase. For example:

      http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000035c8d

       (Star Trek Voyager) lists its entire 'heritage' in the spun-off-from field (and arguably that's correct). I've managed to run into a few other curios as well:

      http://www.freebase.com/view/en/torchwood

       was listed as 'spun-off-from' itself (I just fixed that one).

      Nevertheless, this certainly looks possible, although I can't see an straight MQL way to do it, it'll take some heavy lifting in javascript to post-process the query results. I'm looking forward to giving it a try!

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